This month marks the 15th anniversary of my foray into Linux. It all began with the mention of the word Linux on a BBS I frequented in Bisbee, Arizona (I lived in Douglas, AZ at the time). Not long after that I chanced upon a book entitled “Using Linux.[*]” I bought the book and installed [...]
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Applications that steal focus are the bane of my computer experience. Particularly egregious are the ‘sudo’ type authentication dialogs on the OS X platform. On a multi-monitor setup ( which I have at work ) these dialogs remove the focus to a place where one is not looking. It is too easy to continue type [...] Just a simple post. Emacs is still my main editor. The real question is: how much have I edited? Answer: very little. Five years ago, I wrote a post entitled “Combating Comment Spam” It amuses me that this post attracts the most comment spam than any other post on this site. The spam ratio is easily 100:1 Words fail me to express the extent of failure this movie achieves. Watching it, I had the sense that the story line of canceling the protagonist’s movie was the unvoiced request of the directors plea to halt the production of this trash. |
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